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Trinity College

Hartford, CT 061063100
Connecticut Northeast
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Rachael Schroeder

Rachael Schroeder will begin her fourth year as Trinity College Head Women's Soccer Coach in 2022 after a 2021 campaign that saw the Bantam squad post a record of 7-8-1 which marks the most wins in a single season during her time at Trinity. In 2021 the Bantams qualified for the NESCAC Tournament for the 13th-consecutive time in program history while Schroeder mentored First Team All-NESCAC defender Lexi Hasbrouck. In 2019, Trinity's victories included 2-1 triumphs against No. 21-ranked Farmingdale State in the season opener, versus No. 11-ranked and 2018 NCAA Champion Williams College, and against No. 23-ranked Wesleyan, while the Bantams posted a scoreless draw on the road against top-ranked and 2018 NCAA Runner-Up Middlebury. Schroeder guided Trinity through the pandemic year of 2020-21 that included practices in the fall and training a few scrimmages in the spring. She coached 2019 All-NESCAC midfielder Tricia Pollock and her Bantam squad has boasted 17 NESCAC All-Academic honorees in Schroeder's two seasons.


Schroeder came to Trinity from St. Olaf where she had taken the reins of a program that had gone 9-21-6 prior to the 2016 season and produced winning seasons in each of her three years including a 10-6-2 mark in 2018. She led the Oles to the MIAC Championship Tournament twice and the program earned a spot in the conference quarterfinals in 2018. In her three seasons, Schroeder coached seven All-MIAC selections and three United Soccer Coaches All-North Region honorees. Her teams also collected the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award twice, and three Oles were named to the United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-North/Central Region Teams in Schroeder's three seasons.


Prior to St. Olaf, Schroeder served as an assistant coach at Washington and Lee University for three seasons and Clarkson University for two years, after starting her coaching career as an assistant at Wellesley College. She helped Washington and Lee post a 45-8-3 record from 2013 to 2015, and was a member of the Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year at Clarkson in 2011. Schroeder currently coaches the Team USA Open women's team, which won a gold medal in 2020 at the Pan American Maccabi Games in Mexico City. She was also St. Olaf's senior woman administrator beginning in the spring of 2016, and created the Ole Leadership Academy for student-athletes in that role.


Schroeder is a graduate of Skidmore College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in business and sociology and was a captain and highly-decorated player for the nationally-ranked Thoroughbreds. An all-conference and all-regional honoree three times each, Schroeder went on to play professionally with the Adirondack Lynx and the Boston Breakers of the Women's Professional Soccer League (WPSL) and in Canada for the London Gryphons. Schroeder also owns a master's degree from Clarkson in business administration and is a member of the Trinity Athletics Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.. She resides in West Hartford with her wife, Kingsley, and their son, Dewey.

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Methembe Ndlovu

Trinity College has announced the appointment of Methembe Ndlovu as head men's soccer coach. Ndlovu comes to Trinity owning a wealth of impressive coaching and playing experience at many levels. A four-time All-Ivy League player at Dartmouth College, Ndlovu coached at numerous clubs both in the U.S. and abroad and most recently served as an assistant coach at Penn State University and women's associate head coach at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in California. Ndlovu was also the Africa CEO of Grassroot Soccer and played both professionally and for the Zimbabwe National Team. He replaces Mike Pilger who retired from coaching following the 2021 season.


"We are thrilled to welcome Methembe to the Bantam family and have him write a new chapter in the long and storied history of men's soccer at Trinity College," said Trinity Athletic Director Drew Galbraith. "His personal history with the game is marked by success at every level. Methembe has a clear vision for our men's soccer program that includes competitive success and the holistic development of our student-athletes. He is a skilled teacher and his passion for the game is contagious."


Ndlovu earned his bachelor's degree in government from Dartmouth in 1997, where he starred on the pitch for the Big Green. He went on to a professional career that saw him spend six years with the Albuquerque Geckos, Highlanders FC in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and the Boston Bulldogs. In addition, Ndlovu earned nine international caps with the full Zimbabwe Men's National Team between 1997 and 1999. Ndlovu started his coaching career as a player assistant coach with the Cape Cod Crusaders, then of the PDL, in 2002. In his first season as head coach in 2003, he led the Crusaders to the 2003 PDL National Championship. He then joined the PDL Indiana Invaders as general manager and head coach. A holder of the USSF B License, he was voted 2004 PDL National Coach of the Year. That year, Ndlovu also served as a volunteer assistant coach with the University of Notre Dame men's soccer team under one of his mentors, the legendary Bobby Clark.


Ndlovu was the head coach of the Highlanders Football Club from 2006 to July 2008, leading the club to a CAF Africa Champions League qualification in 2006 and the CAF Confederations Cup in 2008. Ndlovu was also the Zimbabwe National Under-20 Men's Head Coach from 2007 to 2010, and guided that squad to the COSAFA championship in 2007 and to the COSAFA silver medal in 2008. Ndlovu went on to found and serve as CEO and technical director of Bantu Rovers Football Club in Zimbabwe for 10 years (2008-17). Bantu fostered sporting and academic excellence, sent players to professional leagues in Africa and beyond, and sent student-athletes to prestigious prep schools in the United States. As CEO, he was responsible for all club operations and as technical director he oversaw the clubs' technical staff. He re-entered college coaching at Penn State under another of his mentors, Jeff Cook, in 2020 and helped guide the Athenas to a 9-4-3 record at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps last fall.


Ndlovu's achievements as a co-founder of Grassroot Soccer, Inc. (GRS), a youth health, non-governmental organization that uses soccer as a tool for social change, is equally if not more impressive as those as a player and coach. In 2010, Ndlovu was awarded the Dartmouth College Martin Luther King Social Justice Award for his vision, enthusiasm and persistence in youth health education. Ndlovu was part of the organization's Africa leadership team and was The Grassroot Soccer Africa CEO when he left the organization's management team in 2018 to serve on the GRS Global Board as a trustee.

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